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THACKERAY, William Makepeace (1811-1863). [ Selected Works ], London: 1838-1878, 52 volumes, in first or early editions, comprising: Damascus and Palmyra . G. Woodfall for Richard Bentley 1838. 2 volumes, 8° (223 x 138mm). Half-titles. Hand-coloured lithographic frontispieces and 8 plates. Original gilt cloth covers and spine laid down and bound in at the end. FIRST EDITION. Van Duzer 46 (citing a 'very rare' copy with 16 plates). The Comic Almanack, for 1839 . Whitehead and Co. for Charles Tilt, [1838]. 12° (162 x 100mm). 12 etched plates, and woodcut title vignette and illustrations. (Lacking advertisement slip and final advertisements.) FIRST PUBLICATION OF 'STUBB'S CALANDER'. Van Duzer 33. The Comic Almanack, for 1840 . Whitehead and Co. for Charles Tilt, [1839]. 12° (162 x 98mm). 12 etched plates, and woodcut title vignette and illustrations. (Lacking final advertisements.) FIRST PUBLICATION OF 'BARBER COX ...'. Van Duzer 34. An Essay on the Genius of George Cruikshank . Charlers Reynell for Henry Hooper, 1840. 8° (213 x 128mm). Etched frontispiece, 16 plates and woodcut illustrations. (Lacking final advertisements.) Original gilt blue cloth covers laid down and bound in at the end. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. Van Duzer 61 (describing the first issue binding as green cloth). The Paris Sketch Book . Whitehead and Co. for John Macrone, 1840. 2 volumes, 12° (192 x 120mm). Etched frontispieces and 10 plates, woodcut illustrations. FIRST EDITION. Van Duzer 159. Heads of the People . Vizetelly & Co. for Robert Tyas, 1840. 2 volumes, 8° (223 x 136mm). Engraved frontispieces and additional titles, 102 plates, and woodcut illustrations. Original gilt cloth covers and spines laid down and bound in at the end. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. Van Duzer 82. Comic Tales and Sketches . T.C. Savill for Hugh Cunningham, 1841. 12° (195 x 115mm). Tinted etched frontispieces and 10 plates. (Lacking final advertisement leaf volume II, R6.) FIRST EDTION. Van Duzer 35. The Irish Sketch-Book . Bradbury and Evans for Chapman and Hall, 1843. 2 volumes, 12° (189 x 116mm). Woodcut frontispieces and illustrations. (Lacking half-titles and volume II preliminary blank.) FIRST EDITION. Van Duzer 96. Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo . Vizetelly Brothers and Co. for Chapman and Hall, 1846. Half-title. Hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, woodcut illustrations. (Lacking publisher's advertisements at the end.) Original gilt cloth covers and spine laid down and bound in at the end. FIRST EDITION. Van Duzer 153. Mrs Perkin's Ball . Vizetelly Brothers and Co. for Chapman & Hall, 1847. 4° (210 x 155mm). Half-title. Hand-coloured woodcut frontispiece, title and 20 plates, one folding. Original printed covers laid down and bound in. FIRST EDITION. Van Duzer 140. Vanity Fair . Bradbury and Evans, [1847]-1848. 20 parts in 19, bound in one volume, 8° (214 x 136mm). Leaf advertising The Great Hogarty Diamond bound in at the end. Etched frontispiece, additional title, and 38 plates, and woodcut illustrations. Extra-illustrated with an engraved portrait of Thackeray. (Plates a little browned, lacking advertisements.) Original printed upper wrapper for part I and lower wrapper from part XV bound in at the end. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, bound up from the original parts, with heading in 'rustic' type on p.1, woodcut of the Marquess of Steyne on p.336 and 'Mr. Pitt' on p.453. Van Duzer 230. Our Street . Vizetelly Brothers and Co. for Chapman and Hall, 1848. 4° (185 x 132mm). Final advertisement leaf G4. Hand-coloured, tinted woodcut frontispiece, title and 14 plates, and woodcut illustration. Original printed covers laid down and bound in at the end. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Van Duzer 157. The Book of Snobs . Bradbury and Evans for The Punch Office, 1848. 8° (181 x 116mm). Half-title. Preliminary advertisement leaf bound in at the end. Woodcut title vignette and illustrations. Original pictorial wrappers laid down and bound in at t